Musk says that Tesla self -driving tests will verify the “safer” parts in Austin

Elon Musk, CEO of CNBC, said in specific areas that is the “most secure” company, that the first test of the Robotaxi service that has long been provided in Austin, Texas next month. interview Tuesday.

Musk said that Tesla “will not take intersections unless we are very confident (you’ll do this well with this intersection, or will take a way around this intersection.” “We will be very crazy about the publication, as we should be. It will be stupid not to be.”

Geographical use is a major transformation of the MUSK strategy, which spent years in demanding his company, will be able to create a general solution to self -purposes that can be dropped anywhere and work without human supervision. (Geofnce is a term used in the manufacture of independent vehicles, which means that the car is limited to a specific area.) Musk claimed that Tesla would try to launch similar experiments to the Robotaxi service in California and possibly other states later this year.

Musk Telegraphing made the idea of ​​a geographical use of Tesla’s profit call in the first quarter in April, although he did not explicitly say this is the approach that the company will use. The CEO at that time said that there is likely to be a group of local parameters “for early robotics operations.

As part of the “madness” approach in Tesla, Musk said on Tuesday that the company will monitor the first fleet consisting of about 10 Y SUVs equipped with “not subject to supervision” from its full self -program. Musk also claimed that these vehicles will lead without any safety operator inside.

He said: “I think it is wise for us to start with a small number, and stressed that things are going well, and then expand their scope in proportion to the extent of our success in doing it.”

One of the common practices of independent car companies such as Waymo is to have a operating center equipped with people watching their robots and remote guidance, if necessary. Waymo, which Publishing a blog on this topic in 2024Do not take control of vehicles though. Instead, human employees communicate mainly through questions and answers with the self -driving system to give him an appropriate context and help him solve the problem.